A Spanish man has killed his two grandchildren aged 10 and 13 before shooting himself dead - two months after his wife and daughter died in a car accident while he was driving . Police surrounded the 72-year-old man’s house after he barricaded himself in the property last night with the youngsters. Their three bodies were found this morning around 8.
30am in different rooms of the house in Huetor Tajar, a town of around 10,000 inhabitants, near the southern Spanish city of Granada when armed officers forced their way in. Sources close to the investigation have said one of the children had gunshot wounds and they believed the other could have been suffocated. Civil Guard investigators are working with the theory the pensioner shot himself using the same firearm he is believed to have used on one of his grandchildren after ending the other child’s life.
"I slept on a cooling Tempur mattress that costs 56p a night and is worth every penny" Police surrounded the 72-year-old's house last night ( Image: SOLARPIX.COM) This morning it emerged the kids’ granddad had been driving a car that hit a wall at the entrance to a tunnel on the road between Huetor Vega and the town of Loja on March 19 exactly two months earlier. His wife and daughter, the mother of the two children found dead this morning, lost their fight for life after being cut from the wreckage of the vehicle and rushed to hospital.
The youngsters were also in the car that crashed, One is believed to have suffered a br.
